abstract = "Human activity recognition is a challenging problem
for context-aware systems and applications. It is
gaining interest due to the ubiquity of different
sensor sources, wearable smart objects, ambient
sensors, etc. This task is usually approached as a
supervised machine learning problem, where a label is
to be predicted given some input data, such as the
signals retrieved from different sensors. For tackling
the human activity recognition problem in sensor
network environments, in this paper we propose the use
of deep learning (convolutional neural networks) to
perform activity recognition using the publicly
available OPPORTUNITY dataset. Instead of manually
choosing a suitable topology, we will let an
evolutionary algorithm design the optimal topology in
order to maximize the classification F1 score. After
that, we will also explore the performance of
committees of the models resulting from the
evolutionary process. Results analysis indicates that
the proposed model was able to perform activity
recognition within a heterogeneous sensor network
environment, achieving very high accuracies when tested
with new sensor data. Based on all conducted
experiments, the proposed neuroevolutionary system has
proved to be able to systematically find a
classification model which is capable of outperforming
previous results reported in the state-of-the-art,
showing that this approach is useful and improves upon
previously manually-designed architectures.",